Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

Document: IRS Employee Charged With Unlawful Disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports

Lev Sugarman
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 5:02 PM

A criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleged that IRS employee John C. Fry unlawfully disclosed confidential reports about former Trump attorney Michael Cohen in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. The complaint, initially filed on Feb.

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A criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleged that IRS employee John C. Fry unlawfully disclosed confidential reports about former Trump attorney Michael Cohen in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. The complaint, initially filed on Feb. 4, charges Fry with violating 31 U.S.C. §5322(a), which criminalizes the unlawful disclosure of suspicious activity reports. The U.S. attorney’s office issued a press release and released the criminal complaint, which is provided in full below.


Lev Sugarman is an intern at Lawfare and a research intern at the Brookings Institution focusing on national security law. He is a senior in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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